2026 Donald L. Turcotte: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	105	99	49	468	49324

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Overview

Donald L. Turcotte was affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Within these fields, their work addressed several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Condensed Matter Physics, Atmospheric Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Turcotte's research concentrated on various main topics, with the most notable being earthquake and tectonic studies. Their contributions also covered Earthquake Detection and Analysis, Seismology and Earthquake Studies, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Landslides and related hazards, as well as Groundwater flow and contamination studies.

The scientist published frequently in several academic venues:

Earth and Space Science
Reports on Progress in Physics
Physical Review Letters
Physical review. E

Five notable papers include:

The complex dynamics of earthquake fault systems: new approaches to forecasting and nowcasting of earthquakes (2021, Reports on Progress in Physics)
Natural Time Analysis and Nowcasting of Quasi-Periodic Collapse Events During the 2018 Kīlauea Volcano Eruptive Sequence (2022, Earth and Space Science)
Constrained Invasion Percolation Model: Growth via Leath Bursts and the Origin of Seismic b-Value (2020, Physical Review Letters)
Interevent Seismicity Statistics Associated With the 2018 Quasiperiodic Collapse Events at Kīlauea, HI, USA (2020, Earth and Space Science)
Universality class for loopless invasion percolation models and a percolation avalanche burst model for hydraulic fracturing (2021, Physical review. E)

Coauthors who frequently collaborated with Turcotte included:

John B. Rundle
R. A. Fildes
Ronaldo Ortez
Seth Stein
Andrea Donnellan

Their interdisciplinary research addressed complex dynamical systems related to seismic activity, volcanic processes, and percolation models relevant to physical and geological phenomena. Their work contributed to understanding earthquake fault system dynamics, seismic statistics, and modeling of hydraulic fracturing processes.

Best Publications

Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics

Donald Lawson Turcotte

6850
Citations
Geodynamics applications of continuum physics to geological problems

Donald Lawson Turcotte;Gerald Schubert

3126
Citations
Fractals and fragmentation

D. L. Turcotte

1767
Citations
Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets

Gerald Schubert;Donald Lawson Turcotte;Peter Olson

1711
Citations
Landslide inventories and their statistical properties

Bruce D. Malamud;Donald L. Turcotte;Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach

1483
Citations
Implications of a two-component marble-cake mantle

Claude J. Allègre;Donald L. Turcotte

896
Citations
Forest fires: An example of self-organized critical behavior

Bruce D. Malamud;Gleb Morein;Donald L. Turcotte

794
Citations
Finite amplitude convective cells and continental drift

D. L. Turcotte;E. R. Oxburgh

759
Citations
Self-organized criticality

Donald L Turcotte

647
Citations
Power-law correlations of landslide areas in central Italy

Fausto Guzzetti;Bruce D Malamud;Donald L Turcotte;Paola Reichenbach

605
Citations
Fractals in Geology and Geophysics

Donald L. Turcotte

543
Citations
Statistical physics approach to understanding the multiscale dynamics of earthquake fault systems

John B. Rundle;Donald L. Turcotte;Robert Shcherbakov;William Klein;William Klein

540
Citations
Landslides, earthquakes, and erosion

Bruce D. Malamud;Donald L. Turcotte;Fausto Guzzetti;Paola Reichenbach

482
Citations
Magma‐driven propagation of cracks

D. A. Spence;D. L. Turcotte

429
Citations
On isostatic geoid anomalies

W. F. Haxby;D. L. Turcotte

397
Citations
Thermal Structure of Island Arcs

E. R Oxburgh;D. L Turcotte

378
Citations
Stream flow characterization and feature detection using a discrete wavelet transform

Laurence C. Smith;Laurence C. Smith;Donald L. Turcotte;Bryan L. Isacks

372
Citations
Role of Phase Transitions in a Dynamic Mantle

Gerald Schubert;David A. Yuen;Donald L. Turcotte

359
Citations
An episodic hypothesis for Venusian tectonics

Donald L. Turcotte

352
Citations
Fractal River Basins–Chance and Self‐organization

Donald L. Turcotte

145
Citations
Power-law Correlations of Landslide Areas in Central Italy

B. D. Malamud;D. L. Turcotte;F. Guzzetti;P. Reichenbach

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Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Rundle University of California, Davis

Gerald Schubert University of California, Los Angeles

Bruce D. Malamud King's College London

Peter Olson University of New Mexico

Kristy F. Tiampo University of Colorado Boulder

Paola Reichenbach National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR

Andrei Gabrielov Purdue University West Lafayette

Andrea Donnellan Jet Propulsion Lab

Vladimir Keilis-Borok University of California, Los Angeles

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